On 05/14/2011 02:51 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:33:37 -0700 > Derek Tattersall wrote: > >> Does anyone here know which USB wireless dongles or chipsets support >> operation in Access Point mode with hostapd? > I've just been going through this exercise, and have a USB wi-fi dongle > that sorta kinda almost works with the compat-wireless stuff back ported > from the 2.6.39 kernel. I expect it may work more solidly by the time > 2.6.39 is mainstream. Here's my experiences so far: > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.html > > Unfortunately, if you go through the driver list on the linux wireless > web site looking for USB devices that have AP support, you get > a really small list of unobtainable stuff :-). For whatever it's worth, while looking around the web, I found a mention of a Belkin F5D7050 usb dongle that was reported to work in AP mode. I bought one from Amazon (it was $12.94 so I took a chance), and I can confirm that I was able to make it work as an Access Point with hostapd 0.6.1. Derek Tattersall -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
